The Supreme Court appeared deeply at odds on Monday over a small city's ban on homeless people sleeping in public places, with emotional statements from the bench over society's competing civic responsibilities. It comes as jurisdictions across the nation – but especially in the West – struggle with a record …...Read More

For the past year, five fit, academically superior men and women have been spun in centrifuges, submerged for hours, deprived temporarily of oxygen, taught to camp in the snow, and schooled in physiology, anatomy, astronomy, meteorology, robotics, and Russian. On Monday, the five Europeans and an Australian graduated from basic …...Read More

Anti-Israel encampments swept across elite universities on Monday, as antisemitic and pro-terror demonstrations at Columbia University reached a fever pitch at the start of Passover. As Columbia held classes remotely following a weekend of hateful rhetoric surrounding it pro-Gaza encampment on the South Lawn, where incidents have included a young …...Read More

A leading fashion designer whose accessories were used by celebrities from Britney Spears to the cast of the "Sex and the City" TV series was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in Miami federal court on charges of smuggling crocodile handbags from her native Colombia. Nancy …...Read More

Kick off your Sunday shoes, because Kevin Bacon has returned to the school where the 1984 cult classic, "Footloose" was filmed over 40 years ago. Bacon, who starred as Ren McCormack in "Footloose," visited Payson High in Utah, the school that was the setting of the 1984 film. He was …...Read More

A peacock that spent more than six months roaming a village and hopping from house to house and fence to fence — most recently squawking loudly in search of a mate — has been caught at last. Residents of Gravesend, Kent, in the U.K. had grown fond of the bird …...Read More

Freddie Mercury, Elvis and Ray Charles are few of the cultural superstars who were once the focus of biopic films, and they certainly will not be the last. Oscar-winning film director Martin Scorsese is once again drumming up chatter surrounding himself and Academy Award winner and film frontman Leonardo DiCaprio. …...Read More

New York City police officials on Monday told reporters that Columbia University "does not want NYPD present on campus," despite an anti-Israel encampment featuring antisemitic and pro-terror chants, sparking serious security concerns for Jewish students at the start of Passover. At a press conference, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Michale Gerber emphasized …...Read More

Heavy rainstorms that swept across southern China over the weekend killed at least four people in riverside cities, while a search was underway for 10 others missing, state media said Monday. The official Xinhua news agency said three people died in Zhaoqing city while one rescuer died in Shaoguan city. …...Read More

Angel Reese, the former LSU national champion who was a top selection in the WNBA Draft last week, put out a simple post about women in sports on Monday. The new Chicago Sky star urged followers and anyone who read her posts on X to "protect young women in sports!!!" …...Read More